Legal Specialist Coordinator

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (LEARN-IC-NIO-8.1 - Legal Specialist Coordinator) Market Approach - Open, National UKRAINE Lifting Education Access and Resilience in Times of Need in Ukraine Program Grant No. TF0C5794 Assignment Title: Legal Specialist Coordinator Reference No. LEARN-IC-NIO-8.1 Ukraine and World bank have signed the agreements for the Program "Lifting Education Access and Resilience in times of Need in Ukraine Program" (hereinafter referred to as the LEARN or Operation). LEARN was developed to address critical challenges and provide essential support to the education sector, aligning with the Ministry of Education and Science's (MoES) Strategic Action Plan. The objectives of the Operation are to (i) improve teaching and learning conditions; and (ii) strengthen management capacity of the education system. The Legal Specialist Coordinator is responsible for providing legal oversight, coordination, and expert support to ensure that all regulatory, contractual, and normative processes under the New Ukrainian School (NUS) reform, and specifically the LEARN Project IPF component, are fully compliant with Ukrainian legislation, World Bank policies, and international good practices. The Consultant will lead the work of the NIO Legal Team and coordinate legal input across all NIO functional units. The Consultant will be contracted through competitive selection in line with Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, Feb 2025. The detailed Terms of Reference and submission modalities for the assignment are available at the link https://bit.ly/40G9hTa MOES now invites qualified interested persons to submit their expression of interest in Ukrainian and English as provided in the Terms of reference. The deadline for submission of applications is 11:00 am Kyiv time August 13, 2025.